Welles, Gideon, and Trent affair, 71; as Secretary of Navy, 110; and Monitor,111, 114; and Merrimac,113, 117; plans against New Orleans, 118; and Emancipation Proclamation, 152; on Halleck, 163; on Lees invasion (1862), 168; on McClellan after Antietam, 179; and Cabinet crisis, 191; and Hooker, 208; on Chancellorsville, 221; on Lincoln and Hooker, 231; on Lincoln and Meade, 291; on Wilderness campaign, 320; on political campaign (1864), 321; on Grant and Earlys raid, 327.